The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

N0fH-No. :, oo1SRgoot4 c. OaIS-No. Z, QUO.
R4'e-No. l. 551ac. Barley-No ?, SIZE.
Andrew Hopkins, of the town of Black
Greek, Outagamie County. recently shot a
wild cat which he found asleep in a straw
stack near MS house
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
railroad has raised the wages of the Sleep
ing-car porters and prohibited them from
receiving tips
Representatives from various Odd Fell
lows lodges il Rock County met at James
vile recently and formed a permanent
county organization.
A mysterious and fatal disease prevails
among cattle IN Grant County. They APP
pear to be perfectly we'll in the evening
and are found dead in the morning. Many
farmers had sustained serious losses by
the disease. which seemed to be spreading.
Mrs. Abraham Spoon, one of the Oldest
residents of Plymouth, Sheboygan County,
died the other day, aged eighty-three
years.
A peculiar accident occurred recently at
bridge across the river at La Crosse. A
horse harnessed to vehicle containing
woman and child took fright and jumped
into the river. In so doing he managed to
dlsengage himself from the buggy, leaving
it high and dry upon the bridge. No one
was injured, not even the horse.
The recent appearance of several WE'LL
developed cases of smallpox in GAINESVILLE
was causing general alarm, and fears were
entertained of its spreading.
The hog packing in Milwaukee for the
winter season 1SS6-'S7, Just closed, was:
327, 255 head; average weight, Isl pounds
net; average yield of lard per hog, 27.19
pounds decrease of 16 l57 hogs and 8 20
pounds per hog in average weight as COM
pared with the winter of lSS5-'S6. Summer
packing of 1856 March to Nov. u, 225,
$50; average weight, 1;6.S5 pounds net;
average lard yield. p pounds; total pack
ing for the year, 553,077 hogs.
The residence of Rev. Father Boehm,
pastor of the Church Of the Sacred
Heart, Of Eau Claire, was among four
dwellings, entered by burglars the other
night and about 800 was distracted from
the pockets of Rev. Father MendeL of
Eagle Point, guest.
Two wild freight trains collided the
other day at Oak Creek. Milwaukee Coun-
ty, while going at full speed. The loco
motives were demolished and ten cars
were broken into kindling wood, involving
a loss of $4,000. The engineers and fire
men jumped and escaped injury, but one
brakeman who took the same course was
badly hurt.
John w Bells dwelling house at Eau
Claire burned few nights ago. Loss, ST.
200; insurance, 5000.
In the circuit court at Milwaukee recent
ly ex-Judge David w. Small was sus-
pended from practice in the courts of the
State for six months on the charge of I'M
professional conduct
Daniel Allen, who poisoned Henry
Wright, the husband of his paramount, was
found guilty the other night at Neillsville,
Clark County.
John De Witt, of Belgium. Ozaukee
County, recently buried ten dollars in
money near his barn. Some time later he
searched an entire day without being able
to find it. Then III despair he hanged him
self.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul baggage.
men have formed Mutual Life Insurance
Company
B. B. George, town collector of Deer
Creek Taylor County, was waylaid by two
men the other evening and robbed of 500
within one mile of the village of Stetson-
vile. George had just returned from a
collecting trip. He escaped unhurt with
the exception of two gashes, one on his
| neck and the other on his hand.
Lem" Hinckley, of Milwaukee, pro.
prietor Of the Mining Exchange, and
John Featherstone, a well-knOwn saloon
keeper, shook dice the other night, and
when they got through Hincl1ley had lost
all his cash and $50 shares of Crown Point
mining stock worth Sc, 80. The next day
he had Featherstone arrested in an at
tempt to recover his stock, but the author
tiles were unable to compel its return.
Grant County can boast of as old, it not
the Oldest, married couple in Wisconsin,
they being the father and mother of D. C.
Phillips, of Rockville, both being ninety
nine years old or thereabouts.
A letter was received at the Berlin post
office the other night which was mailed at
Ashland on January 10, 1854. The envelope
was bright and clean, plainly addressed
and had not been to the Dead-Letter Office.
w. H. Main, nearly seventy years of age,
shot himself dead at Boscobel, Grant
County, the other morning. Mr. Main in
vented the patent trace holder, collar.
pad, sull1ey borrow and singletree hook.
The maple-sugar camps near Viroqua,
Vernon County, are in active operation.
The Eau Claire Bakery Company, a
Knights of Labor cooperative association.
organized year ago, made an assignment
the other day.
A. farmer near Washington Door Coun-
| ty, has cleared 5000 by cutting ties on
piece Of land for which he paid less than
| 500 last fall.
A recent fire at W. H. Schmidt & Co.'s
| planing-mill in Milwaukee destroyed
| IarUn dPv hOJ1ca md ttybI oh in,
cluded over - 900 feet of choice hardwoo
lumber. Loss, So 600; partially insured.
| Frank Bendel young man, for the
| past year agent of the Burlington rail
road at Alma, Buffalo County, died the
other morning of a bronchial difficulty.
| Tom DougLerty, an ex- convict, was ar
rested at Fan Claire a few days ago on
suspicion Of being responsible for nunicr-
Gus burglaries committed there OF late
| In default of 81, coo te was remanded to
| jail
A new post-ofice has been established at
Hogan, Wood County.
In Milw aul1ee County three thousand
women pay taxes On S4, 100000.
The residence and entire contents OF r.
S. Lithgan, situated in the western portion
| of Beloit, were destroyed by fire the other
| night lAJoof Gl5OJJy MS duCCi - IfhBJ
David Allen, the man convicted of the
murder of Henry Wright in the town OF
Loyal, Clark County, was recently moved
| to the jail at Black River Falls, for safe
keeping, the authorities having been noti-
fed of an intention to take him from Jail
and lynch INN.
Fifty quarter sections of land will be
| drained this season, at a cost of $1,000, by
Casco contractor. Tie land lies in Door
| County.
1 Railroad employees on the Wisconsin
| Central state that new brakeman run
ming on that road between Chicago and st.
| Paul, whose name could not be learned,
| has drawn $15, 000 in the Louisiana State
| lottery.
The Milwaukee Produce and Fruit Asso-
citation has adopted resolutions in refer.
ence to the Limitation of the credit system,
requiring that bills of country dealers be
| paid promptly upon the first of each
| month.
| The National Electric Medical Assosia.
ton will hold its seventeenth annual meet